Protest: Final Poster!

I know its been a while since i mentioned anything about this project but ive got my protest poster done after much shedding of blood sweat and tears.

Protest: Some Girly Feminist Inspiration

Ive been getting inspiration for my Fake Geek Girl poster by looking at some super fancy artwork. A lot of this is thanks to Tumblr and i follow a few of these girls on Instagram so you should check them out. At first i was thinking that i wanted to steer clear of this ultra feminine style but the more ive thought about it the more i want to make it as girly as possible just as a bit of a fuck you to the men who have that boys club mentality about geekdom.

Im absolutely in love with Angelina or ALBinwonderland and im pretty sure i found most of the other illustrators im looking at from her Tumblr. If you havent already check out her Tumblr, Instagram and Youtube.

Sugarbones is the online artwork of Cheyenne Federiconi, equal parts cute and badass i really like the attitude of her work, check out her Tumblr, Instagram and online store. 

Megan Rose Gedris or Rosalarian is a comic book writer and artists and burlesque dancer. I think her work is so amazing, as someone who isnt much of an illustrator i just think what she does is so cool, im gonna be taking a lot of inspiration from her about drawing womens bodies and being colourful, cute and sexy. Look her up on Tumblr.

Protest: Fake Geek Girls

Ive finally decided on my protest theme! Im looking at the myth of The Fake Geek Girl, scourge of all things everywhere. I suppose this fulfills the feminist side of things but keeping it a bit lighthearted. If youre lucky enough to have never heard of the Fake Geek Girl then basically its the idea that women will pretend to be interested in comic books or video games or anything that falls under 'geek culture' for the interest of men. Any woman who shows an interest in any of these things could be a fake geek so you better make sure to test her knowledge and make her feel as alienated as possible so she'll prove her true credentials or reveal her true identity as a man-flesh eating giant lizard...

Existential Questions and Feminist Protest

Now that the first half of the year is done and ive had a little break its back to the grind with two new briefs. The first is 'Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?' from the title of Paul Gauguins' painting and the second is 'Protest' which involves making a paper based two dimensional thing.

Some ideas ive got for the first one are more related to the what are we and where are we going questions. Ive been writing an essay as part of our contextual studies part of the course and i came across this thing called the Proteus effect, this is basically when a persons appearance in a virtual world effects the way they behave and the way they perceive themselves in the real world. This whole idea made me think of a film i really love, Ghost in the Shell. In the futuristic world of the film a cyborg, a human in completely cybernetic body, questions what it means to be human. The film also talks about the idea of a 'ghost', part of you thats really you, like your soul or maybe something completely different that can whisper to you.

For the protest project im definitely taking a feminist slant on it. I suppose my problem is that theres too many things that piss me off to think of one at the moment. Something that annoys me to no end is this whole curvy vs. skinny stuff. Yeah its a bitch that we see a select few bodies in magazines being praised as the most beautiful but we also have the same restrictive standards of what is considered 'curvy'. Basically i dont want to be super negative about the whole thing but to have a bit of humor about my protest, if such a thing is possible for a humorless feminist.